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Blast from the past | Suresh Chandra Bose

Late Suresh Chandra Bose was Netaji\\'s elder brother. He was a non-official member of the Shah Nawaz Committee (1956) and dissented from its view that Netaji had died following a crash in Taipei. The followings have been extracted from Suresh Bose\\'s Dissentient Report that went out of print decades back.

Appeal to my countrymen

I (Suresh Bose) would, with all humility, appeal to my esteemed countrymen not to accept the reports submitted by my learned colleagues or by my humble self, but to make a demand to our Government to place at their disposal the whole of the evidence that was made available to the (Shah Nawaz) Committee and I would earnestly request them to form their opinion after a careful perusal and consideration of the same, and, if the general opinion be that the aircraft accident did not take place, and that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not die, as alleged, to demand an impeachment of all those, who have taken part in this nefarious game.

On the war time inquiries

... the British and American Intelligence officers, as a result of thorough enquiries made by them soon after the alleged incident, agreed with my finding and that they did not believe the announcement made by Japanese that Netaji was dead. They believed that it was a hoax and that Netaji was living and hiding somewhere. In one of their secret reports, it is also mentioned that Shri MK Gandhi and a few Russian diplomats also believed that Netaji was alive.

On Shah Nawaz Khan, the Chairman of Netaji Inquiry Committee 1956

... (his) attitude and conduct at times, far from maintaining a judicial approach, has been similar to that of a zealous partisan and worse than that of the most unscrupulous prosecutor ... the Chairman had decidedly a biased, prejudiced and preconceived opinion that Netaji was dead ... which was also the confirmed opinion of the Prime Minister (Jawahar Lal Nehru) ....

On the Committee\\'s conduct in Japan

Whenever any witness made a statement that did not fit in with his opinion, he (Shah Nawaz Khan) would make a suggestion to him as to whether he remembered it definitely, as the incident took place about 11 years ago or would put other questions or suggestions to him to confuse him and to make him modify his answer or change his definite statement to a vague one. Another unimaginably conduct of his was that when a statement made by a witness did not suit his purpose, he would modify it, while dictating it to the stenographer.

On Bengal Chief Minister Dr BC Roy\\'s role

... the Chief Minister of West Bengal was pleased to phone me and to request me to meet him in his office at 4 P.M. the same day, which I did. He started by coaxing me in several ways to make me agree with the findings of my colleagues and to sign their report, so as to make it unanimous one ... in the meantime, our Chief Minister and also another Minister took the trouble of influencing and persuading me to agree to sign the report of my colleagues through a few of my nearest relations.

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